Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slash into the artery running north from the fabled riches of the Dutch East Indies held the most fearsome possibilities of all. Japan was already getting a bitter foretaste...
...spent the night at General Leclerc's command post, six miles from Paris on the Orleans-Paris road. Here the last German resistance outside Paris was being slowly reduced, while inside the city the Germans and the F.F.I, fought a bitter battle that had already lasted six days. Late in the afternoon a French cub plane flew in 50 yards above the Cathedral of Notre Dame, on the He de la Cite where the F.F.I, had its headquarters, and dropped a message which said simply: "Tomorrow we come...
Groaned Correspondent Montgomery: "The war [in Germany] will go on-underground. Allied military patrols will be ambushed . . . administrators assassinated . . . commanders will die mysteriously. . . . Hitler and the Nazis-particularly Himmler-have learned from their own bitter experience how effective the underground resistance...
General William Tecumseh Sherman left a bitter record of a professional soldier's everlasting struggle to make ends meet. When he was a lieutenant he wrote: "Had it not been for the $1,500 I had made in the store at Coloma [Calif.], I could not have lived through the winter." Sherman resigned and even when the Civil War broke out hesitated to go in again because "I did not and will not volunteer for three months because I cannot throw my family on the cold charity of the world...
...scale that it never had before, notably steel and aluminum. Then Westerners began to dream that the West was finally going to grow up industrially. But as the end of the war draws near with no definite plans announced to utilize fully those industries, many a Westerner has grown bitter and disillusioned. Last week Druge summed up that disillusionment and, in so doing, spoke for most Westerners...